Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn’t like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels.
I was that kind of kid that was going to the movies every weekend, I couldnt get enough of the movies, and now I get to make them. So I kind of have a one-track mind.
And I’m not anti-sequel, but I just feel like there are very few ideas that are meant to be continued.
I mean, frankly, I’m not speaking as a representative of Disney or Pixar, I’m speaking as just myself as a filmmaker: I don’t go into anything that often thinking about a sequel.
Well, executive producer can mean anything in the world of Hollywood, sadly. It can be a bought title in many instances.
I’m a family man, I have kids, and I go to the movies. And I’m just going to make the kind of movie I want to see.
I’m twice as funny, I’m twice as smart, I’m twice as whatever when I’m around other people that challenge me.
Frankly, there isn’t anyone you couldn’t learn to love once you’ve heard their story.
A major threshold is passed when you mature enough to acknowledge what drives you, and to take the wheel and steer it.
I almost feel like it’s an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.
I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.
In storytelling, the audience actually wants to work for their meal, they just don’t want to know that they’re doing it.
If you want someone’s attention, whisper.
Art is messy, art is chaos – so you need a system.
I think in the future we might see things arrive the way Prince announces a concert where a few days before the show he announces it and tickets just go up. You might see that with movies and other things.
Loneliness is, I think, people’s biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.
Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.
I’m still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It’s just not in their nature.
Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don’t go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.
The thing about working at Pixar is that everyone around you is smarter and funnier and cleverer than you and they all think the same about everyone else. Its a nice problem to have.
In fact, I don’t think I’ll ever make anything that will feel as divinely dropped in my lap as the opening of ‘Wall-E.’